NZ Deaf News: Spring 1963 (Vol. 1, No. 1)

Some of the items featured in the first ever issue of the ‘New Zealand Deaf News’, the Spring 1963 issue (Vol. 1, No. 1):

  • District ‘Round-Up’ from Auckland Deaf Society, Christchurch Deaf Club, Manawatu Deaf Club and Wellington Deaf Society.
  • A report on the NZ Deaf Societies Convention Conference, with agreement to form a national body called the ‘New Zealand Deaf Amateur Sports Association’.
  • Tidbits of news from Deaf people across New Zealand, and events around the world.

  1. Jennifer Shearer

  2. Joan Bailey

  3. John Hunt

  4. John McRae

  5. Keith Gordon

  6. Ken Brain

  7. Laurie Schischka

  8. Margaret Coutts

  9. Mary Johnson

  10. Owen Gibbons

  11. Patreena Bryan

  12. Peter Murray

  13. Sylvia Schischka

  14. Vernon Pope

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